Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers 1879-1995

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Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers 1879-1995

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Sawyer is best known for his role in developing a vaccine for yellow fever and working to eradicate the disease as a public health threat whle working for the Rockefeller Foundation's West Africa Yellow Fever Commission.

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Great Britain. Yellow Fever Commission (West Africa)

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Rockefeller Foundation. International Health Division

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Sawyer, Wilbur A. (Wilbur Augustus), 1879-1951

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Wilbur Augustus Sawyer (1879-1951) was born in Appleton, WI. His family moved first to Oshkosh, and later to Stockton, CA in 1888. He first attended the University of California at Berkeley, but soon transferred to Harvard where he received his bachelor's degree in 1902 and his medical degree in 1906. He worked for the Rockefeller Foundation from 1919-1944, primarily within its International Health Division. His first assignment was overseeing a campaign against the spread of hookworm disease in...